{"id":3129,"date":"2009-09-27T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2009-09-27T16:51:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:51:23","slug":"its-quiet-too-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/?p=3129","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s quiet.  Too quiet."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once more conscious, Mark Trail realizes that<strong><em> Rusty! <\/em><\/strong>and<strong><em> Sassy!<\/em><\/strong> have been left<strong><em> alone!<\/em><\/strong> In the <strong><em>tent!<\/em><\/strong> A quick peek revealed that the campsite looked <em><strong>peaceful<\/strong><\/em> and <strong><em>calm<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what every damned thing that lives and flies and crawls and buzzes and swims in the swamp would<em> like <\/em>you to believe.\u00a0 Only it takes a person with cunning and a sense of danger to realize otherwise.\u00a0 Like CC&#8217;s AeroSquid (well, certainly not Mark!)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3131\" title=\"3957056446_9cc5abc6a6_o\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3957056446_9cc5abc6a6_o.jpg\" alt=\"3957056446_9cc5abc6a6_o\" width=\"383\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3957056446_9cc5abc6a6_o.jpg 383w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3957056446_9cc5abc6a6_o-250x123.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or even more insidious:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3130\" title=\"3956331981_14f6222ddf_o\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3956331981_14f6222ddf_o.jpg\" alt=\"3956331981_14f6222ddf_o\" width=\"383\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3956331981_14f6222ddf_o.jpg 383w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3956331981_14f6222ddf_o-250x123.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah. Like <strong><em>I&#8217;m <\/em><\/strong>not going to jump on the bandwagon (particularly when I can mash on AeroSquid&#8217;s original mashie goodness):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3132\" title=\"not-mt-a\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/not-mt-a.jpg\" alt=\"not-mt-a\" width=\"383\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/not-mt-a.jpg 383w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/not-mt-a-250x123.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Okay, just one more:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3133\" title=\"not-mt-b\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/not-mt-b.jpg\" alt=\"not-mt-b\" width=\"383\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/not-mt-b.jpg 383w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/not-mt-b-250x123.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Holy Crapping Pancakes!&#8221; is courtesy of Sequitur (and I think if Mark every cursed, this would be it).\u00a0 Speaking of Sequitur, guess who came along for the ride (Mark&#8217;s expression in Panel 2 kills me):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3134\" title=\"3957446154_1123cf062c_o\" src=\"http:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3957446154_1123cf062c_o.jpg\" alt=\"3957446154_1123cf062c_o\" width=\"590\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3957446154_1123cf062c_o.jpg 590w, https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/3957446154_1123cf062c_o-250x120.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once more conscious, Mark Trail realizes that Rusty! and Sassy! have been left alone! In the tent! A quick peek revealed that the campsite looked peaceful and calm. That&#8217;s what every damned thing that lives and flies and crawls and buzzes and swims in the swamp would like you to believe.\u00a0 Only it takes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-comics","category-mark-trail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snarkitupfuzzball.nexiliscom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}